Yeah, he played the piano some. And did some of the coolest avant-garde radio work ever. And he wrote perceptively, even prophetically about technology and culture.
But in assessing Gould’s talents and contributions, it’s rare to hear much consideration of him as a comedian. But surely his antic achievements are more significant than allegedly amusing [...]
From the monthly archives:
April 2007
My Mashup of Mike’s Mashup of My Mashup, originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg.
I was preparing for tomorrow’s virtual session with Alan, D’Arcy, and Jim, doing a search on CC-licensed stuff in Flickr tagged with “mashup,” when I came across the image above. It wasn’t quite right for the page I ended up assembling. But [...]
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Thanks to Andy for flagging this online video by Lee Lefever outlining the basics of using an RSS reader:
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There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.
Three and [...]
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My favorite new media theorist was better known for his work on a piano keyboard. Here’s something he wrote more than forty years ago:
One of the certain effects of the electronic age is that it will forever change the values that we attach to art. In fact, the vocabulary of aesthetic criteria that has [...]
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RSS: A series of pipes, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer.
The image above was snapped in a conference room at the new Ike Barber Learning Centre here at UBC. My office is scheduled to move into [...]
Ever since I saw him venture out on an Ohio winter’s night in sandals and shirtsleeves without a shiver I’ve suspected David Wiley had some kind of superhuman constitution. Add another tale to the legend — yesterday he gave a closing afternoon keynote in Baton Rouge, flew north and west across the continent through [...]
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Believe it or not, I try to restrict my commentary on American political matters on this weblog. Anyone who knows me is aware what a monumental struggle it is to show such restraint. I’m going to bust out here.
Once again, internet radio is near death. Execution day is set for May 15. [...]
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…or at least this sordid open content pusher can only hope. The first taste is free. And if we do it right, you can continue to feed your info-addiction without coughing up money as well.
We presented our session on distributed content networks a couple hours ago. As usual, I have no sense [...]
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My colleague Novak Rogic and I are presenting at the BCNet conference tomorrow on our shared obsession, which though it lacks a snazzy catchphrase essentially comes down to a distributed publishing model. Content is created in whatever environment the author feels most comfortable with — so long as it generates full RSS feeds. [...]
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I took a red-eye flight home last night, touching down in Vancouver about 11PM local time, assuming I had missed the Canucks‘ first playoff game in three years. When I emerged from the baggage area and saw the clumps of anxious fans huddled around TVs at the airport bar, my heart began racing with [...]
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